Picturing Afghanistan : the photography of foreign conflict /
Paul Verschueren.
- xiii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- The Hampton Press communication series. Communication, globalization and cultural identity .
- Hampton Press communication series. Communication, globalization and cultural identity. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-183) and index.
1. Photographs and frames; Photography and theory; The concept of the frame; Using social semiotics for frame analysis; The photojournalistic register and genre; Visual and textual frames; Two examples -- 2. Official U.S. views; Photography and propaganda; A soldier's story; Paper bullets; The white man's burden; Photo-texts in/about war -- 3. Western European press views; Photography and the news; Initial responses across the Atlantic; The framing of combatants and technologies; Visualizing leadership in wartime; Home fronts in a globalized world; Refugees: threatened and dangerous; The civilian body as battleground; Photography and info-graphics; Invisible Afghanistan -- 4. The photo-book; Photography and the documentary tradition; War as quest; Dystopian landscapes; The photo studio as heterotopia; The otherness of war -- Conclusion.
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Afghan War, 2001---Photography Afghan War, 2001---Pictorial works Afghan War, 2001---Press coverage Afghan War, 2001---Political aspects Psychological warfare--Afghanistan Propaganda--Western countries Public relations and politics--Western countries Journalism--Political aspects--Western countries Photobooks--Political aspects--Western countries Mass media and war--Western countries